Sri Aurobindo is the only one who is known both as a yogi and as a philosopher

Yoga, karma, and rebirth: a brief history and philosophy, Stephen H. Phillips - 2009 - 358 pages

Here we may place a bit of abstract reasoning by the modern guru and philosopher Aurobindo.42 He argues that since ... taking for granted a certain background metaphysics, namely, a variety of Vedantic and tantric monistic theism. ...

Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet - Page 153, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio - 2009 - 243 pages

Auroville teaches integral yoga, the founding spiritual principle of its dual avatar leadership formed by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother") and Sri Aurobindo, which integrates the Vedantic and the Tantric traditions.

The Revelation of the Breath: A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and ... - Page 23, Sharon G. Mijares - 2009 - 283 pages

It is fair to note that numerous yogic schools have been established in the last century. All those known and unknown are acknowledged in this short chapter whether mentioned or not. 17. Vasant V. Merchant and Sri Aurobindo, “The Tantra...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 21, Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine - 2009 - 350 pages

and faith,” views that were echoed elsewhere in descriptions of Indian thought as pathetically illiterate, idiot-like, God-intoxicated, tantric aberrations,15 ... Among them were: Akshay Sarkar,17 Sri Aurobindo(whose works in this ...

Philosophical insights about modern science, Eva Žerovnik, Olga Markič, Andrej Ule - 2009 - 321 pages

seems to support what the tantric traditions of Indian spirituality have been saying all along - that life is a dance of lila ... such as Iyer, Radhakrishnan,Aurobindo, Mukerjee etc are documented in the author's recently published ...

Autobiography and the Psychological Study of Religious Lives. - Page 214, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels - 2009 - 392 pages

the coitus reservatus of Tantric sexual practice, which provided them with both a constantly renewable source of ... as both Murphy and Price had been deeply influenced by the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo and Buddhism, respectively. ...

Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality - Page 82, James M. Nelson - 2009 - 731 pages

Other techniques used in tantra include sexual activity, which is thought to generate energy that can be channeled ... important modern systems is Integral Yoga, developed by the 20th- century Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950). ...

Inner Tantric Yoga: Working with the Universal Shakti: Secrets of ... - Page 233, David Frawley - 2009 - 266 pages

Many great modern non-dualist vedantins have been Devi worshippers and usedTantric Yoga methods as well. We see this with Paramahansa Ramakrishna, who was a devotee of Kali. Sri Aurobindo, Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Shivananda of ...

The strides of Vishnu: Hindu culture in historical perspective - Page 210, Ariel Glucklich - 2008 - 241 pages

This practical and experimental meditative technique was based on physiological theories that have become the staples of both Yoga and Tantra terminology in Hinduism and that Aurobindo deeply respected. At the most basic level, ...

Dreaming in the world's religions: a comparative history - Page 46, Kelly Bulkeley - 2008 - 331 pages

The last of these modern visionaries we have space to consider is Sri Aurobindo(1872–1950), whose system of Integral Yoga merged the language of TantricHinduism with that of Western evolutionary science.16 Aurobindo was born in ...

Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader, Sachidananda Mohanty, Aurobindo Ghose - 2008 - 180 pages

In FIC, Sri Aurobindo bases himself on a book by John Woodroffe, the well known scholar and writer of Tantric philosophy. Woodroffe 's work was a rejoinder to the attack on Indian culture by the art critic William Archer. ...

The lives of Sri Aurobindo, Peter Heehs - 2008 - 496 pages

Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living. Peter ...

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 91, Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages

Sri Aurobindo has brought out harmony between material world and spiritual world. If a stone is worshipped, it is permissible as it is the covered Sat ... He admits that from matter one can go to life as it is done in the Tantra. ...  

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages

When Sri Aurobindo speaks of the poetry of the future aspiring towards the "Seeing Word" or pasyanti vak, he integrates the insights of Tantra, the Mandukya and ... [Sri Aurobindo and His Contemporary Thinkers, The Century of Life: Nitishataka of Bhartrihari Freely Rendered into English Verse, Dante and Sri Aurobindo: A Comparative Study of the Divine Comedy and Savitri]

Liberal Protestantism and Science - Page 130, Leslie A. Muray - 2007 - 153 pages

This represents the world-accepting strand in Indian religion (Tantra and popular Hinduism) in which 'The world is the ... The contemporary Indian proponent ofan 'integral philosophy', Sri Aurobindo, also takes up this theme (in the ... 

The Pocket Ken Wilber - Page 62, Ken Wilber - 2008 - 179 pages

So as this incarnational non- duality, this ultimately ecstatic tantric non- duality itself,began to unfold,and its forms of manifestation began to unfold, you find that by the time you get to people like Sri Aurobindo, there's such a ... 

Invading the sacred: an analysis of Hinduism studies in America, Krishnan Ramaswamy, Aditi Banerjee - 2007 - 545 pages

to lead a double life by living conventionally while experimenting in secret with Tantric identities. ... studies which encompass Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Muktananda, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Hindu Goddess, among others. ...

Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 301, Robert Kleinman - 2007 - 334 pages

Sri Aurobindo, Savitri ... Finally, some systems inspired by Tantra maintain the full equality of Ö±vara (the Lord) and ÷akti (Creative Force). Although they can be distinguished mentally, both refer to the same reality viewed in ...

Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 477, Jeffrey John Kripal- 2007 - 575 pages

I am not the first to note the Tantric elements of Aurobindo's thought. Kees Bolle wrote the same the very month Esalen began in “Tantric Elements in Sri Aurobindo,” Numen 9, no. 2 (September 1962): 123–42. 19. Sri Aurobindo on the...

A republic of mind and spirit: a cultural history of American ... - Page 372, Catherine L. Albanese - 2007 - 628 pages

From Murphy's side, they selectively re-present American metaphysical religion as it encountered, in Aurobindo, ... It is true that if we single out hatha yoga, scholars of yogic India have pointed unmistakably to its tantric origins, ...

Jawaharlal Nehru - Page 38, Frank Moraes - 2007 - 529 pages

Bengal flattered him by imitation, reviving the tantric ... and by a young Cambridge-educated Indian, Aurobindo Ghose, who later was to retire from politics and set up as a sage in his ashram at Pondicherry. ...

Idealistic Thought of India - Page 299, P. T. Raju - 2006 - 452 pages

AUROBINDO GHOSE Of all India's famous philosophers, Sri Aurobindo Ghose is the only one who is known both as a yogi and as a philosopher. ... A tantric is generally a follower of the Sakta philosophy and is a • Sri Aurobindo is ...

Literature, caste and society: the masks and veils - Page 405, S. Jeyaseela Stephen - 2006 - 427 pages

Sri Aurobindo was indeed a new and remarkable man in Indian politics. After 1910, Aurobindo gradually shifted himself from "tantra" or revolutionary work and his follower Motilal Roy, realized also that those men who dedicated to the ...

Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 114, Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages

Hindu Tantric philosophy has not yet entered the canon of Indian philosophy. Although, I must mention that the modern Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo tried to raise its status to the canon of philosophy. In this regard, I would like to ...

The tantric body: the secret tradition of Hindu religion - Page 186, Gavin D. Flood - 2006 - 244 pages

Although there have been attempts to reconcile or synthesise a hierarchical world-view with an evolutionary perspective (in the work of Aurobindo, for example) the order of being in the tantric universe remains at odds with a ...

Freud along the Ganges: psychoanalytic reflections on the people ..., Salman Akhtar - 2005 - 451 pages

twentieth century who appealed to the Western-educated Indian include the mystics Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi, ... An example of what is considered a dark art is Tantra, an esoteric Hindu and Buddhist tradition of sexual practices ...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 117, Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages

He has, in effect, confused the sexual assumptions of his own Bengali culture with the metaphysical nature of the entire universe. Divinizing Desire and Delight. In another classically Tantric move, Aurobindo insists that desire is not ...

Positioning yoga: balancing acts across cultures - Page 153, Sarah Strauss - 2005 - 185 pages

The term Integral Yoga was in fact first coined by Sri Aurobindo, a well-known spiritual leader of the ... 8 Accusations of black magic, Tantric practices involving animal sacrifice, and other such extreme activities were also made. ...

The World's Greatest Seers and Philosophers - Page 115, Clifford Sawhney - 2005 - 142 pages

On November 26, 1926, Sri Aurobindo - as he now came to be called - retired into seclusion, a period that is generally regarded as the official establishment of his spiritual community. ...

Self, society, and science: theoretical and historical perspectives, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Project of History ... - 2005 - 493 pages

In a later development in the Yoga of Tantra, we find another basis of a synthesis in which the aspect of sakti is ... In Sri Aurobindo, we have still a new synthesis which is effected by negating the forms and outsides of the yogic ... 

Psychological studies University of Mysore. Dept. of Psychology – 2005

The writing is interspersed with excerpts from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and brings the reader closer to their ideas. Section 3, titled "Psychology and the Indian Tradition: In Search of A Meeting Ground", has several interesting ...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ..., Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 171 pages

the supreme causal, the causal, the subtle and the gross, correspond to the fourfold classification of the speech by Tantra yoga - para, ... 

Ānandamaṭh, or, The sacred brotherhood: - Page 305 Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Julius Lipner - 2005 - 315 pages

"A Tantric Icon Comes Alive: The Evolution of Kali's Image in Bengali Sak- tism", in G Hayes and H Urban (eds.), In the Flesh: Eros, ... Sri Aurobindo and the New Thought in Indian Politics. Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1997. Nandy, Ashis. ...

Gandhi marg, Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India ... – 2005

Similar to the ideas of Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo also visualised that Hinduism can provide the basis of the ... Vedanta, Gita, Upanishads, Darshana, Purana, Tantra, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran; but its real, ...

Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 217, Basant Kumar Lal - 2005 - 346 pages

It is not possible to explain the nature of Yoga as conceived by Sri Aurobindo in complete detail, partly because of the vastness of its description and partly because of its essential dependence on Tantra, which falls beyond the scope ...

Applied Indian Psychology: New Perspective - Page 97, S. Hussain, Mohd. H. R. Kahn - 2005 - 350 pages

According to Sri Aurobindo, spirit evolves — as it might be said, spirit is the entire evolutionary process of its own unfolding, from matter to life to mind to the higher and super conscient realms of spirits' own being (Dalai, 2002). ...  

The Roots of Modern Magick: An Anthology - Page 24, A H Greenfield - 2004 - 260 pages

Based in North Africa and France, Theon taught a “fully Tantric” approach to spirituality, according to Sri Aurobindo. He exercised a profound influence upon HB of L Frontal Chief Peter Davidson, who, in turn, was a profound influence ...

Understanding Medical Physiology - Page 876, Bijlani - 2004 - 948 pages

Central principles of different schools of yoga School of Yoga Hatha yoga Raja yoga Tantra yoga Triple path ... Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo have made powerful pleas in the recent past for correcting this distortion. b. ...

Mira to Mother - Page 162, Udhaya Kumar – 2004

1907 First arrest of Sri Aurobindo. 1908 Divorce from H. Morrissey. Mother moves to 49 rue de Levis. January: Sri Aurobindo meets the tantric yogi V. Lele. Realization of mental silence and Nirvana. 2 May, the "Alipore Bomb Case": ...

Gandhi, Bose, Nehru, and the making of the modern Indian mind, Reba Som - 2004 - 259 pages

his thoughts with Sri Aurobindo in his ashram in Pondicherry. Unwilling to take responsibility for his declining health, ... He wrote how his varying moods made him choose between Shiva, Kali and Krishna while his study of tantric ... 

Events and movements, Ke. El Mahēndra - 2005 - 492 pages

Classifying the periods of Indian culture, Shri Aurobindo describes this post-classical period as "a lifting up of the whole lower life and the impressing upon it the values of spirit. This was the sense of the Puranic, Tantric systems ... 

The Kundalini book of living and dying: gateways to a higher ... - Page 110, Ravindra Kumar, Jytte Larsen - 2004 - 271 pages

Jung says this attempt at reemergence is the main source of psychic energy, while, according to Sri Aurobindo, ... of Sri Aurobindo or the residue of experiences of Jung is the kundalini of Tantra lying dormant in the root center called ...

Tāntric Hedonism of Mahānadī Valley (Uḍ̣ḍīyāna Pīṭha), Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo - 2004 - 290 pages

The post-Gupta period was the juvenile period of the revival of Vedic culture withtantric influence. Prof. Satyavrata R. Patel91 quotes Sri Aurobindo Ghosh in this context, Indian art portrays all human activities, sacred and profane, ...

The divine songs of sage poet Ramprasad, Rāmaprasāda Sena, Shyamal Kumar Banerjee - 2004 - 275 pages

Sage Ramprasad had reached to the end of the Tantra Science. He practised it, realised it. And that is why his words are ... Rishi Sri Aurobindo in his several monumental works has explored the path of progress of the human soul. ...

Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga Kireet Joshi, Matthijs Cornelissen, Project of ... - 2004 - 495 pages

Sri Aurobindo looks at the process of human development from a much wider frame than is generally attempted within the ... He also examines and integrates insights from the Vedic, Vedantic, Buddhist, Tantric and Western philosophical ...

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page ix Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - 199 pages

to Sri MP Pandit's Lights on the Tantra whose brilliant exposition of The Finding of the Soul' chapter in Savitri drew me towards Sri Aurobindo: "A mighty movement rocked the inner space As if a world were shaken and found its Soul. ...

Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation, Jarava Lal Mehta - 2004 - 292 pages

and often found in combination with hatha- yoga and tantra, for the 'yogi works on his body as well as his psycho-mental life. ... How much of all this influenced the early thinking of Aurobindo, it is difficult to say. ...

The Laws of Life - Page 238, Roza Riaikkenen, Margarita Riaikkenen - 2004 - 362 pages

whole system of teachings called “Yoga”, which offered a number of ways to achieve the highest levels of spirituality. In reality, Yoga contains so many aspects, ways and methods that “all life is Yoga” (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis ...

Female ascetics in Hinduism - Page 126, Lynn Teskey Denton, Steven Collins - 2004 - 218 pages

being the ascetics Ramakrishna and Aurobindo. The case of Ramakrishna's "mother- wife," Sarada Devi, is particularly important: One can ... I have alluded to the relationship between women and the tantric branches of the community, ...

The graceful guru: Hindu female gurus in India and the United States, Karen Pechilis - 2004 - 260 pages

This book provides biographical profiles of the following female gurus plus sensitive scholarly analysis of their spiritual paths: Ammachi, Anandamayi Ma, Gauri Ma, Gurumayi, Jayashri Ma, Karunamayi Ma, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Mother Meera, ...

The Upanishads - Page 313, Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo - 2004 - 597 pages

collected or redeveloped fragments; I shall suppose that the real meaning & justification of Purana, Tantra, Itihasa & Yoga can only be discovered by a rediscovery of their old foundation and harmonising secret in the true sense of ...

The secret of the Veda - Page 5, Sri Aurobindo - 2003 - 604 pages

In the fixed tradition of thousands of years they have been revered as the origin and standard of all that can be held as authoritative and true in Brahmana and Upanishad, in Tantra and Purana, in the doctrines of great philosophical ...

Encyclopedia of new religions: new religious movements, sects and ..., Christopher Hugh Partridge - 2004 - 446 pages

It is considered to be like a large golden sphere that appears to be rising out of the earth, symbolizing the birth of a new consciousness. The Mother was the undisputed spiritual and administrative head of the Sri Aurobindo Society, ...

The deeper dimension of Yoga: theory and practice, Georg Feuerstein - 2003 - 415 pages

Sri Aurobindo put it this way: The chief processes of Hathayoga are asana and pranayama. By its numerous Asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working ...

Modern psychology and ancient wisdom: psychological healing ..., Sharon G. Mijares - 2003 - 284 pages Neil Douglas-Klotz, Dwight Judy, Sheldon Kramer, Stephen G. Gilli…

Thus, dissimilar to some more ascetic approaches, tantra yoga takes a positive view of the human body and embodiment in general, and particularly ... This ideal is also expressed more recently in the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo. ...

Tantra: sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions - Page 95, Hugh B. Urban - 2003 - 372 pages

he drew on the traditional Tantric imagery of the Goddess as power on both the spiritual and revolutionary planes. ... Here, Aurobindo lays out his ideal of a secret religio- political organization, an order of young ascetics who ... The striking irony, however, is that Aurobindo would later come to identify the Mother, not with the violent, bloodthirsty, and militant Tantric ... Leaving behind home and children, she joined Aurobindo and became his disciple in 1914. ...

Netaji Subhas confronted the Indian ethos, 1900-1921: Yogi Sri ... - Page 139 Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - 224 pages

Kaul, HK Sri Aurobindo: A Descriptive Bibliography, with a Foreword by CD Deshmukh (1972); ... Studies in the Light of His Thought (1957); Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Sri Aurobindo (1966); Sri Aurobindo on the Tantra (1967); ... [India: Mystic, Complex and Real : A Detailed Study of E.M. Forster's a Passage to India : His Treatment of India's Landscape, History, Social Anthrop]

Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern - Page 577, K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - 2003 - 584 pages

See Aurobindo, Sri Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, The, 294-97, ... cultural expressions of, 421-73 in dialogue, 479-559 medieval, 142-43 modern, 255-316 nature of, xvi-xvii Puranic, 159-82 regional, 3-153 Tantric, 209-49 Human Cycle, ...

Indian writing in English: a critical study - Page 25, Krishna Autar Agrawal - 2003 - 256 pages

Tantra: quoted by MP Pandit in Gems From The Tantras, p. 30. 9. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1990), p. 863. ..

Holy war: violence and the Bhagavad Gita, Steven Rosen - 2002 - 229 pages

Such was the supreme experience Sri Aurobindo received in jail, which never left him afterwards. ... its broad synthesis of Vedanta, Sankhya, Jnana, Bhakti and evenTantra, its deep insights into the workings of Nature, ..

The ways and power of love: types, factors, and techniques of ... - Page 370, Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - 2002 - 552 pages

The main of these are Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Laya Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and various " Integral Yogas " like that of Sri Aurobindo.48 Their general techniques retain the essentials of Raja Yoga. ...

Dilip Kumar Roy: a lover of light among luminaries, Amrita Paresh Patel, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai ... - 2002 - 255 pages

In Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo observed that the Tantra philosophy of life was similar to his own outlook on life because in the Tantra they weld together alien elements of the human personality in the roles of ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism, Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - 147 pages

Sri Aurobindo has not left this principle of the Tantra untouched. In his poem "Shiva" we find a very vivid revelation of Shiva and the Shakti and their being One. Here we will see the beginning and the end of that poem "Shiva". ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 436, Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages

Buddhism does not pay attention to rebirth but, according to Sri Aurobindo, "It views the recurrence of birth as a ... 82 In Tantra, Sri Aurobindo finds a meaningful consequence in rebirth: "The Tantric solution shows us a supreme ...

Revisioning transpersonal theory: a participatory vision of human ... - Page 48, Jorge Noguera Ferrer - 2002 - 273 pages

In the same vein, Nuernberger (1994) proposes that the Hindu Tantric tradition of Shaktism is an inner science ... Furthermore, Phillips (1986) describes Neo- Vedantic thinker Sri-Aurobindo as a "mystic empiricist in that he would ...

The complete idiot's guide to Hinduism - Page 341, Linda Johnsen - 2002, 2009 - 408 pages

Early in the twentieth century, the famous tantric adept ... One of the most respected Hindu sages of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry, passed the leadership of his lineage to his female disciple Mira Alfassa. ...

Developments in Indian philosophy from Eighteenth century onwards: ..., Daya Krishna, Project of History of Indian ... - 2002 - 416 pages

Kapali Shastri, for example, utilises his vast knowledge of tantra to unfold the possible hidden meanings in the hymn to ... if one were to compare, say, the secret of the Veda, as interpreted by Sri Aurobindo, Kapali Shastri and Sri ...

Vedic tradition and modern crisis, Pushpendra Kumar - 2002 - 233 pages

In the Purano-Tantric age, the heights of the Veda and the Upanishads were not surpassed but depths were further deepened ... Dayananda Saraswati to Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda and to Sri Aurobindo has two important concerns ... 

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 94, Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - 147 pages

The entire poetic career of Sri Aurobindo indubitably appears to be a legendary journey with many meanings and levels of ... religion-pychological practices like Yoga and Tantra pours out poetically through the Savitri legend. ...

Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs ..., J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann - 2002, 2010 - 1507 pages

Like Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo Ghose — better known as Sri Aurobindo — was educated in England and attempted to apply a synthesis of Hindu ... the various forms of Tantra and yoga, and in the observances that structure family life. ... 

Religions in the modern world: traditions and transformations - Page 27 Linda Woodhead - 2002, 2009 - 393 pages

Incorporating the physiological teachings of Hatha yoga, tantra makes full use of the body to attain subtle and profound ... Hacker sees neo-Hinduism as beginning in the 1870s, with Bankim Chattopadhyaya, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, ...

The hero's journey toward a second American century, Michael E. Salla - 2002 - 224 pages

Sri Aurobindo, one of the foremost Indian philosophers in the twentieth century, explains that the Kundalini is "the ... 34 The rigorous purification and meditative processes in Tantric philosophy can be likened to a hero's journey in ...

Indian religions: a historical reader of spiritual expression and ... - Page 456, Peter Heehs - 2002 - 620 pages

Sri Aurobindo (as he was called after 1926) spent the last years of his life working on a symbolic epic poem, Savitri. ... schools of bhakti- yoga), and the path of self-perfection (such as was practised by tantric yogis and siddhas). ...

The essential Aurobindo - Page 159, Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages

Tantric discipline is in its nature a synthesis. It has seized on the large universal truth that there are two poles of being whose essential unity is the secret of existence, Brahman and Shakti, Spirit and Nature, and that Nature is ...

Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit, Sampadananda Mishra - 2001 - 118 pages

Sri Aurobindo's Original Sanskrit Writings There are not many original writings fromSri Aurobindo in Sanskrit except ... an incomplete work on Tantra. Though the number of his writings in Sanskrit is very small in comparison to his ...

Religious tantricism Rajnath Singh – 2001

As Kundalini yoga is one of the lines of the Tantra, what is known as the Varna Marga is also one of the disciplines. Sri Aurobindo points out that the Varna Marga does not really mean 'left-hand path. ...

Records of Yoga, Aurobindo Ghose - 2001 - 1515 pages

Third Absolute - Aditi - M [the Mother]. Aditi is the indivisible consciousness force and Ananda of the Supreme; M, its living dynamis, the supreme Love, Wisdom, Power. Adya-Shakti of the Tantra = Parabrahman Fourth Absolute ...

Records of Yoga, Aurobindo Ghose - 2001 - 1515 pages

of direct powerful compulsion on living beings to act according to the Will in this adhar and another Tantric power of affecting the Akash physically so as to draw a line over which they could not pass. Both powers were at first of the ...

Rethinking Indian culture: challenges and responses Sitakant Mahapatra, Harish Chandra Das ... - 2001 - 540 pages

Approaching religion from both Yogic and philosophic perspectives he wrote in The Life Divine. "I am a Tantric. ... Practitioners of Yoga worldwide may never have heard of Sri Aurobindo but he and others have made Yoga an integral ... 

Sri Aurobindo, thinker and the yogi of the future, M. G. Umar - 2001 - 284 pages

In Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and Tantra the Kundalini is awakened from the Muladhara; it rises upwards from the bottom ... In his Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo achieves a unique synthesis of the inner and the outer to develop a perfect man ...

GOD SHALL GROW UP Body, Soul,& Earth Evolving Together - Page 17 Wayne Bloomquist - 2001 - 351 pages

Similarly, Sri Aurobindo did not discard the traditional philosophies and yogic practices of Vedanta, Vaishnavism, and Tantra, but incorporated them into his own system and used them as a foundation for further development. ...

Ultimate realities - Page 321, Robert C. Neville - 2001 - 363 pages

Essays examine politicized Hinduism, S. Radhakrishnan, Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Svami Vivekananda, and Ramakrishnan. Note: the first edition includes a third section, "Religion and National Goals," which surveys contemporary ... 

Indian ode to the West wind: studies in literary encounters, Sisir Kumar Das - 2001 - 248 pages

Sri Aurobindo in his Future Poetry written in the second decade of twentieth century, finds that Whitman's "sense of ... of the experiences and symbols described by the Yogic mystics and elaborated in Tantric works on Kundalini energy. ...

Arts of Asia, 2001

an open courtyard, its name^mi (a female practitioner of yoga) is suggestive of secret sexual Hindu or Tantric practices. ... Presenting a rationalistic view of Indian culture, according to the great saint Aurobindo: "The ancient ...

The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science - Page 741, W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff - 2001 - 1836 pages

A creative contribution has been made by Sri Aurobindo toward the understanding of human personality through what ... and this is repeated in the Tantra and later Yoga literature. Naturally it is in the medical literature that one also ...

The sacred paths: understanding the religions of the world, Theodore M. Ludwig - 2000 - 564 pages

Of the many other modern Hindu thinkers who have expressed a new and vital Hindu perspective, we might single out Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who lived through the same years as Gandhi but took a somewhat different course. ...

Perspectives of Savitri 2000

Sri Aurobindo makes a clarifying statement on the bases of these Yogas quite early in the volume: In all the lord of the Yoga is the Purusha, the Conscious Soul that knows, observes, attracts, governs. But in Tantra it is rather ...

Essays on the Gita - Page 107, Sri Aurobindo - 2000 - 588 pages

The strong perception of the great cosmic action and the eternal activity and power of the cosmic energy which was so much emphasised afterwards by the teaching of the Tantric ...

The Mother: the story of her life, George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages

life,' Sri Aurobindo wrote, 'and therefore the individuals who lead the way will take all human life for their province. ... Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. ...

Kulārṇava Tantra, Arthur Avalon, Madhav Pundalik Pandit ... - 2000 - 357 pages

warrior in the mind, An eagle of dreams in the divining heart, An armour in the fight, a bow of God. Then larger dawns arrive Man's knowledge becomes God's supernal Ray. (Sri Aurobindo : Savitri X-3) The supreme Knowledge of the One ... [Flame of white light, Devi-Puja, Sidelights on the tantra, Further lights: The Veda and the Tantra T. V Kapali Sastry]

The Penguin Sri Aurobindo reader, Aurobindo Ghose, Makarand R. Paranjape - 1999 - 375 pages

Nevertheless, in its origin Tantra was a great and puissant system founded upon ideas which were at least ... It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tan trie Yogin ...

Outlook - 22 Sep 2008 - Page 79 Vol. 48, No. 38 - 48 pages – Magazine

and midnight forays into tantric rituals (not to mention his constant gay companion, Peter Orlowski). ... Ramana Maharishi and Sri Aurobindo, who provides Ginsberg with what comes nearest to an answer to the Beatnik's search in...

Journal of Asian history 2005

downplaying the strong religious and intellectual concerns of thinkers such as Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Kaviraj, Woodroffe and Mircea Eliade. His preclusion of the referentiality of the interpretations of Tantra studied also impedes ...

The Journal of transpersonal psychology  Transpersonal Institute, American ... – 2004

The correspondences among the traditional yogic descriptions of the chakras and Sri Aurobindo's elucidation of their ... With regard to other aspects of classical Tantra, it is important to note that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother did not ...

The Journal of transpersonal psychology 2004

Sri Aurobindo generally agrees with classical Tantric descriptions of the chakras; however, he does add original insights based on his notion of the evolution (see Table 1 ). For example, he discerns a complex interaction among several ...

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Indian Council of Philosophical Research – 2003

from Greek philosophers to modern and contemporary western thinkers like Sartre, Husserl, Putnam, Dennett and Davidson among others, as well as Indian philosophical standpoints of Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Tantra and Sri Aurobindo. If we look at the different papers in the volume, we find broadly two kinds of attempts at play. ...

Mainstream 2003

And this world religion, Sri Aurobindo wrote, has many scriptures, Veda, Vedanta, Gita, Upanishad, Darshana, Purana, Tantra, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran; but its real, most authoritative scripture is in heart in which the ...

Omega journal of death and dying Wayne State University. Center for ... – 2002

Among the modern renderings of Upanisadic ideas, Shri Aurobindo (1872-1950), too, considers the anxiety over bodily death to ... It may be noted that the fundamental difference between the orthodox Hindu philosophy and Tantra is that,

Mountain path Sri Ramanasramam Charities – 2002

in contemporary times, Sri Aurobindo talks of a coming together of the paths of action, wisdom, and love [in] an adoration of an impersonal Delight and Beauty, of a pure and infinite perfection to which we can give no name or form, ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 2001

Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. ... The supermind had already been glimpsed on its heights by the Vedic Rishis, and even though Sri Aurobindo discovered the ...

Yoga Journal - Nov 2000 - Page 160 No. 157 - 196 pages – Magazine

Spiritual Traditions of India Sri Aurobindo has translated and commented upon many of the major spiritual texts ot India. ... It has not only been the source for the later developments, such as the Upanishads, the Tantra and the Gita, ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture – 2000

The essence of the Mother cult is to be found in the songs of Ramprasad, in the words of Sri Ramakrishna, as explained by Swami Vivek- ananda, in the writings of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Sri Aurobindo. Our business is to discover ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 1999

It is only in the last movement that the legend is changed by Sri Aurobindo to fit in with his idea of the future incarnation. Whereas in Vyasa Savitri is seen engaged in a friendly ... The meditative Tantra Yoga lends the necessary ...